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. 2017 Mar:48:116-119.
doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.12.023. Epub 2016 Dec 23.

Usutu virus, Belgium, 2016

M Garigliany  1 , A Linden  2 , G Gilliau  1 , E Levy  1 , M Sarlet  1 , M Franssen  1 , E Benzarti  1 , A Derouaux  3 , F Francis  4 , D Desmecht  5
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Usutu virus, Belgium, 2016

M Garigliany et al. Infect Genet Evol. 2017 Mar.
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Abstract

During late summer 2016, in a northwest European region extending over Belgium, the Netherlands and the eastern border of the German state of North Rhine Westphalia, an outbreak of wild bird deaths occurred similar to those reported on the continent since 1996. Dead birds were necropsied and examined by complementary methods. Pathologic and immunohistological investigations strongly suggested an infection by Usutu virus. Subsequently, genomic segments of the said virus were detected, the virus was isolated and its complete genome was sequenced. The strain, designated Usutu-LIEGE, is a close phylogenetic relative of those isolated in Germany which form a distinct group within the USUV phylogeny, the so-called Europe_3 lineage. Should this outbreak recapitulate the characteristics of those in southwest Germany in 2011 and in/around Vienna (Austria) in 2001, it is expected that specific avian populations in the affected area will face a significant reduction in size for a few years.

Keywords: Blackbird; Emergence; Flaviviridae; Usutu.

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